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title: She watched the fight No pallor on her fruit-like cheek, no cloud Di… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She watched the fight No pallor on her fruit-like cheek, no cloud Dimming her star-like eyes. Who acts: Vanity, cloud. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 105

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She watched the fight No pallor on her fruit-like cheek, no cloud Dimming her star-like eyes.

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**Who acts:** Vanity, cloud · **What happens:** watch, dim · **To what, where:** fight, like cheek, like eyes

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vanity, cloud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:14:107
# text = She watched the fight No pallor on her fruit-like cheek, no cloud Dimming her star-like eyes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	pallor	pallor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	Dimming	dim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Vanity | the fight |  | Vanity's like cheek |  | no pallor *obj* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent fight=Theme pallor=Attribute |
| 2 | **dim** | gerund | no cloud *not said here* | Vanity's like eyes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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